Emburse Analytics Quick-Start Guide

Use this quick-start guide to find, run, and interact with standard dashboards and reports in Emburse Analytics.

Some features are available only to users with the Creator user type. For Viewer and Creator roles, see Emburse Analytics User Types And Roles. For copying, editing, scheduling, and related Creator workflows, see the Creator Quick-Start Guide.

For users with the Creator license, the sections below help you get started with standard reports and dashboards. For guidance on creating custom content, see these topics:

Navigate Emburse Analytics

When you open Emburse Analytics, the default dashboard displays. To access more content, select All in the upper left corner.

Exported Expense Spend dashboard with All in the upper left

Understand Standard Folders

You will see these standard folders:

  • Personal Folder: Labeled with your name, this folder includes reports and dashboards you create. Other users cannot access it.

  • Emburse Analytics Folder: This folder contains Emburse-created content, including standard reports and dashboards.

  • Emburse Analytics Pro Folder: If your organization subscribes to Emburse Analytics Pro, users with the Creator user type see this folder with Pro dashboards and reports.

  • Organizational Folder: Labeled with your organization name, this folder contains reports and dashboards shared across your organization.

All folder list showing Sample User, Example Company, Emburse Analytics, and Emburse Analytics Pro

For details about folder access, see Folder Contents and Access .

Use the Menu

You can also select the Menu option in the upper left corner to navigate Emburse Analytics.

Menu opened in the upper left showing Personal and Admin tabs

Find Standard Reports and Dashboards

The Emburse Analytics folder contains subfolders for each Emburse business unit that your organization subscribes to. The example below shows the contents for Emburse Enterprise subscribers.

Emburse Analytics folder opened to Enterprise subfolders

Inside each folder, you will find preconfigured dashboards and reports. Select a report or dashboard to open it.

Invoice Enterprise folder with dashboards and the Accruals report

Interact with Dashboards

A dashboard is a collection of reports displayed in tiles. You can interact with dashboards in several ways:

  1. Select any dashboard tile to interact with the data.

  2. Dashboard with multiple tiles that can be selected for interaction

  3. Select filter values across the top, then select Refresh in the upper right.

  4. Dashboard filters across the top with the Refresh control in the upper right

  5. Review the saved filter values at the top of the dashboard.

  6. Dashboard showing selected filters saved across the top

  7. Right-click in a tile to drill through to detailed data.

  8. Dashboard tile right-click menu showing drill-through options

  9. Select the Information control to view how dashboard data is calculated.

  10. Information control on a dashboard tile with details about the calculation

Show All

Use Show All to review the related detail behind a summarized amount or label on a dashboard or report.

  1. Hover over an amount or label to display the underline.

  2. Dashboard amount highlighted after hover, ready for the Show All menu

  3. Right-click the underlined amount or label, then select Show All.

  4. Right-click Explore menu on a dashboard amount with Show All highlighted

  5. Emburse Analytics displays the related detail. In the upper right corner, select Explore to view the full report, or select Download to save the data in your preferred format.

  6. Show All detail view with related rows and Explore and Download in the upper right

Run Standard Reports

  1. In the relevant folder, select a standard report to open it.

    Reports can display as tables, charts, or other visualization types.

  2. Expense Enterprise folder with Expense Spend Detail selected

    Report opened with a table visualization

  3. Select Filters in the upper left to view and edit report filters.

  4. Report page showing Filters control in the upper left

  5. Update the filters, then select Run.

  6. Filters panel with Run option to refresh the report results

Sort and Reorder Table Columns

Table visualizations support sorting and column reordering.

  1. Hover over the right side of a column header to view Column Options (three dots) and sort controls.

  2. Table column header showing Column Options (three dots) and sort controls

  3. Select the sort arrows in the column header to sort that column. The first selection sorts the column in descending order. Select the arrows again to sort in ascending order.

  4. Drag a column header to move the column to a new position.

  5. Table with a column header being dragged to reorder columns

Sorting and moving columns in this view are not saved. To keep those changes, a user with the Creator user type must edit the report, make the changes, and then save. See the Creator Quick-Start Guide.

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